Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-10-29
WAGE WORKERS.
Numerous Items of Interest to Employers
and Employees.

The American petroleum exporters are re-
gaining their former control over British
markets, which were partially invaded by
Russian oil exporters. AT least 2250,OOO
barrels of petroleum were consumed in Great
Britain last year. A well has been bored in
Egypt 1910 feet, and has reached a good
supply of OIL
South Carolina textile mills are selling
their sheetings and drills all over the United
States and Canada. Southern manufacturers
are annoyed by prosecutions of work people
who have been injured by machinery. There
are quite number of suits for from IS, 000
to $4,000 for injuries sustained.
There is an urgent demand for all kinds of
labor throughout the West, and good
many manufacturers are still obliged to inn
port it from the East by extending proper
inducements. An immense amount of out
side work yet remains undone.
New England cotton mills are being put in
condition for the manufacture of higher and
finer grades of goods. The textile machine
shops of the country are doing their best to
produce finer and better machines to meet
these higher requirements.
A Sanford (Me). inventor has spent five
years in perfecting carpet loom, which he
claims to he the fastest pie-wiTe loom in the
world, running l25 picks pei minute, against
ninety, the fastest loom now in use in this
country and i'll England
The mechanical engineers are OF the opin-
ION that natural gas can be conducted much
longer distances than 1t has yet been done by
system of exhaustion ut the delivery end.
10 this end large machines are beng con-
structed.
In the Allegheny Mountain district $40
new coke ovens are being built Wages are
fifteen per cent. below the Connellsyille rate.
There are 5000 less III the coke trade
than there were q yeas ago. Shippers are in
great need.
English locomotives are disappearing, ana
an American pattern Is taking their place.
The AmenCaD design Is superior III all re-
spects. The peCullarIty Of the American en-
CINE is that the bulk OF the weight is over
the drivers.
The foreign beet crop promises to be 300, 600
tons less than it was last year, and us the
stock of sugar in the world is 100000 tons
less than it was at tins time last year some
people think there will be an advance in
sugar.
There is a heavier demand for electric mo-
tors and electric plants than existing facili-
ties can promptly supply, and large com
panles that have All abundance OF capital
will make extensive engagements this
winter.
A cotton factory is going up at Danvlle,
Va, and one at Big Falls, N. c. One with
$4,000 spindles which will employ $50 per-
sons, consuming $1,000 bales Of cotton, will
be built at Pelzer S. q. The capital will be
100000.
A French torpedo boat that Hartford me-
chanic is making is to be run by vapor from
carbonic gas stored i'll liquid form and vapor-
lied by chemical heat. The initial pressure
is to be 800 pounds to the square inch.
In Great Britain, 81, O9S factories are regis
tered, and 69, $50 workshops The inspectors
of shops and factories last year made 1l4,274
visits to see that the laws were in force.
There are tifty-six inspectors in all.
For while it was thought that the wire
nails would drive out the cut nails, but care
full experiments have shown that one dol
lars worth of cut nails will give the same
service as an amount of wire nails costing
81 70.
According to the commercial reports from
thirty cities for every 800 worth of business
done for the first nine months of last year
sos worth of business has been done during
the first nine months of this year.
A blanket factory has just been established
in Cape Colony, South Africa. The English
are watching it very closely, as success with
this one will lead to establishing others, and
consequent competition.